Sarah Hall Quotes

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• There are stories told to him only at this time of year. Fantastic, magical stories, the old Hollier in the woods finding only three red…
• People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life.
• All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal…
• The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.
• At night, in the garden, it occurs to you that it might have been your heart that left you as you reached the capital. Your…
• Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.
• You’ve been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.
• You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt…
• Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

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